Word: bombs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nuclear physicist. Bomb designer...
...Brown was helping to win the peace in his own way?as an assistant to Edward Teller, a leader in the development of the H-bomb, at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory in Livermore, Calif. In the next few years, Brown not only worked on the H-bomb but also helped design the first Polaris submarine-launched ballistic missile, originated the Project Plowshare plan for peaceful uses of atomic energy, and served as the senior U.S. adviser at nuclear test-ban negotiations with the Soviet Union. Recalls an associate: "He was intense, bright, driving and dynamic, but neither patient nor comfortable...
MADRID -- A bomb planted by a terrorist organization exploded yesterday on the first floor of the U.S. Cultural Center in Madrid hours before Vice President Walter F. Mondale was scheduled to arrive to meet with Spanish leaders...
...late recruit to the Baader-Meinhof revolutionary cause, Sonnenberg had previously been arrested for demonstrating in a courtroom against prison conditions for convicted terrorists. Becker was a professional revolutionary. First jailed in 1972 for helping to bomb a British boating club in West Berlin, she was one of five imprisoned terrorists released in exchange for kidnaped politician Peter Lorenz, who was abducted in 1975 while running for mayor in Berlin. Flown to the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen by the Bonn government, Becker reportedly took courses in hijacking and other terrorist skills at a training camp...
When the last Americans were evacuated from Saigon, they left behind them a million orphans, 181,000 physically disabled Vietnamese, and three million unemployed South Vietnamese. Even more serious, perhaps, was the total economic and social dislocation of the Vietnamese population caused by America's decision to bomb and defoliate the Vietnamese countryside, disregarding--or, more probably, desiring--the consequences that action would have on a primarily agrarian society...